{"id":982,"date":"2009-11-20T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=982"},"modified":"2009-11-20T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:33:12","slug":"adaptation-just-as-important-as-mitigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2009\/11\/adaptation-just-as-important-as-mitigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Adaptation just as important as Mitigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad<\/a> points out that much of my discussion for a research agenda<\/a> in climate change informatics<\/a> focusses heavily on strategies for emissions reduction (aka Mitigation) and neglects the equally important topic of ensuring communities can survive the climate changes that are inevitable (aka Adaptation). Which is an important point. When I talk about the goal of keeping temperatures to below a 2\u00b0C rise<\/a>, it’s equally important to acknowledge that we’ve almost certainly already lost any chance<\/a> of keeping peak temperature rise much below 2\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

Which means, of course, that we have some serious work to do, in understanding the impact of climate change on existing infrastructure, and to integrate an awareness of the likely climate change issues into new planning and construction projects. This is, of course, what Brad’s Adaptation and Impacts research division<\/a> focusses on. There are some huge challenges to do with how we take the data we have (e.g. see the datasets in the CCCSN<\/a>), downscale<\/a> these to provide more localized forecasts, and then figure out how to incorporate these into decision making.<\/p>\n

One existing tool to point out is the World Bank’s ADAPT<\/a>, which is intended to help analyze projects in the planning stage, and identify risks related to climate change adaptation. This is quite a different decision-making task from the emissions reduction decision tools I’ve been looking at. But just as important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brad points out that much of my discussion for a research agenda in climate change informatics focusses heavily on strategies for emissions reduction (aka Mitigation) and neglects the equally important topic of ensuring communities can survive the climate changes that are inevitable (aka Adaptation). Which is an important point. When I talk about the goal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,19,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}